Using IT to Provide Easier Access to Cross-Border Legal Procedures for Citizens and Legal Professionals - Implementation of a European Payment Order e-CODEX pilot

• Main Authors: George Pangalos, Ioannis Salmatzidis, Ioannis Pagkalos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Association for Court Administration 2014-12-01
• Series: International Journal for Court Administration
• Subjects: Court Administration; Judicial Administration, e-Justice, European payment order, cross-border access, automated court processes, e-lawyer, automated legal processes,
• Online Access: https://www.iacajournal.org/articles/137

Integration in Europe has resulted in a steadily increasing number of legal procedures containing cross-border effects which require better cooperation between different national judicial systems and simpler and more efficient procedures for the users. Information and Communication technologies can help make cross-border judicial procedures more transparent, efficient and economic both in civil and criminal matters. e-CODEX is an important project of the EU in the domain of e-Justice that aims to provide to citizens, enterprises and legal professionals an easier access to justice in cross border procedures, as well as make cross-border collaboration of courts and authorities easier and more efficient. It develops the required infrastructure and the organizational, procedural and legal environment necessary and also conducts a number of real life cross-border pilots. One of the first such pilots to become operational is that of the <a title="Opens internal link in current window" href="http://www.e-codex.eu/pilots/european-order-for-payment.html">European Payment Order (EPO)</a>, in which Greece also participates. In this paper we briefly present the services of cross-border access of citizens and legal professionals to legal means in Europe provided by e-CODEX and also the Greek e-CODEX pilot of European Payment Order, which has already launched operation in the framework of this major e-Justice project.